As a reader of Literature, I can tell you that an accurate setting could still be really nuanced. For starters, remember that for most folks, awareness just wasn't there. Gaydar was non-existent. You'd be surprised how little people really thought about one another's sex lives. Sex was just a fact of life nobody thought about. Do you think about how other people eat, or go to the bathroom? Nope.
Recall also that people everywhere, at all times, are all the same, and most people keep to themselves. I guarantee that we all know people who do things we consider wrong, that we just keep quiet about. Most people aren't moral crusaders. Moral crusaders are always a subculture, always.
C.S. Lewis has written openly about all the queer activity he saw going on around him during his education in the late Victorian Era, which he didn't participate in but just shrugged off as "people get weird sometimes oh well."
Georges Sand was an openly transgender Victorian author. Nobody cared. Lewis Caroll was known to do some really dodgy photography that would've raised eyebrows tday. It raised eyebrows then and invited debate, but he went right on teaching math. And every educated person knew what Sapphic meant.
You should also remember that the people who DID seem to share our values were MORE likely to be awful people or mentally ill because they were untethered to the ethics of their time. The person who flaunted social class in their love life might seem open-minded at first, but was more likely to be a predator using their status to get what they wanted. The really aggerssive libertine was more likely to be a crook, con-artist and murderer than the people tut-tutting them. If we're being totally honest, Oscar Wilde got into trouble because some of his partners were wildly too young for him, and he got way too open about it. If anything, he was the REASON people started viewing the queer community more critically.
Do some reasearch and you'd find all sorts of things. PoC people lived relateively unmolested in 30s and 40s Germany. Read about Elizabethan times. People in historical eras were literally just us, using different slang,
Genuinely 90% of historical fiction would be so much better if more writers could get more comfortable with the fact that to create a good story set in a different time period you do actually have to give the characters beliefs & values which reflect that time period
Those are the people who have no familiarity with anything older than Roblox. Ugh. Gimme a black and white silent film with pancake makeup and undercranked all to hell, I'll have a good time.
Also, Europeans, ffs maybe if you quit treating each other like predators, maybe you'd have more friends, build social networks, you'd have more unexpected life experiences, better mental health, less loneliness, more relationships, higher birth rate - like, you have universal health care and no wars, quit drinking and live your lives, ffs gd I am correct, do as you're told
i saw a post on twitter by a european saying americans are fake for their random compliments to strangers and their general cheery demeanor and like no. no no no you don’t understand. if you get a random compliment from an american on the street about your outfit or whatever, that is 100% genuine. we mean it. we aren’t lying we are making a small but fleeting connection with you because our lives are shitty but the human condition is enduring. oh god i’m clutching my chest
The hell of it is, I know exactly this feeling. Like you wish you could just slough off your meatcoat and drift weightless through the aether for a few hours.
Maybe this is how on old people begin to reconcile themselves to dying.
Y’all ever get fatigue so bad that you’re laying down and it feels like you need to lay down MORE? Advanced laying. Somehow.
Sometimes I notice you capitalizing certain phrases that didn't technically need to be, as if to Denote A Specific Action. It's something other Tumblr users have done too
And I need you to know, because I think it's very important, that the old Winnie the Pooh books did that all the time.
So all along, it's not been a Tumblr textform, it's been Poohspeak
They used to do that all the time before spelling was standardized by everyone going to school and using the same books and all
We've just gone back to it bc it may be nonstandard but it Does Something, if you will
Amen. I mean, ideally they should quit finger-wagging people about sex altogether, quit analysing about what's toxic and just let people do what they're going to do.
Still salty about people who put more energy into raging against kinks that are practiced safely and with respect, consent, communication, and aftercare, than against vanilla sex that's practiced with poor communication or understanding and ends up harming someone involved
Like I know without a fucking doubt which one of those is more common, and which one harms more people every single day.
And YET the one person who gets their nut by tying someone up is clearly more of a problem than 100 people not knowing or caring that their partner feels unsatisfied, emotionally vulnerable, or otherwise not treated properly after Proper Missionary Sex Where You Felt Ashamed Enough About Wanting It
Please reglog if you think belly rubs should be normalized and accepted as a form of physical affection and seen as the same level as hugs and cuddles. I need to prove something
I don't know why this keeps happening but I keep meeting toxic heterosexual couples who experiment with polyamory and are heavily into funko pops, board games, Disney princesses and Burlesque stripping and the man is always a withdrawn bearded dude and the woman is always a passive aggressive control freak with an Etsy shop that sells lawn gnomes styled after Dr Who characters and they don't really even seem to like each other but they're always exactly the same. this has happened four times
Oh my, I've found an AI art generator that I like A LOT.
So here is a first taste of some of stomachache kink I've been having it bring to life. A little something for everyone. There WILL be more to come. Please feel free to reblog and let me know what you like!